Eyeon Expertise

Integrated business planning
Integrated Business planning is where demand, supply and financial planning come together. All plans should be reviewed in an integrated way and lead to a single agreed plan

• Sales and Operations Planning, Collaborative Forecasting and Planning
• Corporate Performance Management
• Interim Planning, Interim Supply Chain Management

Demand Planning
Sales drive your business and good demand planning will make sure you are prepared for sales. A solid demand planning process leads to good decisions and is a joint effort of sales, finance and supply chain management. EyeOn helps customers develop, implement and improve their demand planning processes, so that demand planning becomes a smart, value adding process instead of the number crunching exercise that it often is.

On all levels, EyeOn has contributed in improving demand planning performance:

• Prepare: assess feasibility of statistical forecasting
• Design: forecast process design
• Execution: interim and / or supported demand management

Supply Planning
In supply planning, actions are taken so that the supplying organization (manufacturing and distribution) is geared to meet the forecasted demand. A large variety of decisions is asked from the Supply Planning function: longer term capacity requirements, optimum stock levels, proper middle term planning and an efficient execution schedule.

With knowledge about supply chain design, supply chain analysis and proven line experience, EyeOn experts help streamline the supply planning function:

• Prepare: planning process scan, inventory scan
• Design: supply chain design, new product planning
• Execute: interim supply chain management, planning process implementation

Financial Planning
Supply planning and demand planning  should be aimed at decision making and should provide a valuable check on financial performance during the year. The other way round, without the proper financial information, the logistics functions might be taking wrong decisions based on wrong incentives.

EyeOn has ample experience integrating finance and supply chain functions and streamlining financial processes:

• Implementing: rolling Financial Forecast, Q*P forecasting
• Streamlining: Budgeting
• Decision support: Scenario Planning, Profitability Management